A frustrating 3 hours of debugging
Dec. 11th, 2006 02:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nyankoframeI plugged in my scanner because I need to scan my transcripts and my passport for my visa application, and that started the whole nightmare...
The install of the scanner unexpectedly failed with a "Not enough storage is available to complete this operation" error, and that puzzled me, so I removed the scanner and rebooted. Big mistake.
Every time I logged in after that, regardless of which user account it was running under, it would immediately bluescreen after a few minutes. There was a lot of fun that ensued trying to debug that (various combinations of Safe Mode and enabling/disabling services and startup programs), and in the end, the solution I adopted was to just uninstall the scanner. I could've done a system restore, but I wasn't sure and I wanted to find out why this was happening. There was another issue but I'll need to plug in a network cable to see if that one still exists...
And I'm definitely buying a new scanner after all of this. I'm tired of having to always run-as administrator any program that I want to use to scan because the scanner drivers are brain-dead...
The install of the scanner unexpectedly failed with a "Not enough storage is available to complete this operation" error, and that puzzled me, so I removed the scanner and rebooted. Big mistake.
Every time I logged in after that, regardless of which user account it was running under, it would immediately bluescreen after a few minutes. There was a lot of fun that ensued trying to debug that (various combinations of Safe Mode and enabling/disabling services and startup programs), and in the end, the solution I adopted was to just uninstall the scanner. I could've done a system restore, but I wasn't sure and I wanted to find out why this was happening. There was another issue but I'll need to plug in a network cable to see if that one still exists...
And I'm definitely buying a new scanner after all of this. I'm tired of having to always run-as administrator any program that I want to use to scan because the scanner drivers are brain-dead...
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Date: 2006-12-11 02:14 pm (UTC)It is one of the 120593059230492049 goals in my life to scan a kitten one day. ...A kitten's stomach.